· Private foundation
Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILD PAKS | $20,000 |
| GENEROUS HANDS INC | $20,000 |
| BRONCOS KITCHEN FOUNDATION | $17,500 |
| SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK | $12,000 |
| KALAMAZOO LOAVES AND FISHES | $9,500 |
| BRONSON HEALTH FOUNDATION | $9,500 |
| MILESTONE SENIOR SERVICES | $7,500 |
| 12 BASKETS FOOD PANTRY | $7,000 |
| MATTAWAN AREA PANTRY | $5,500 |
| COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS | $5,000 |
| GIRLS ON THE RUN OF GREATER KALAMAZOO | $3,500 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT | $3,500 |
| KALAMAZOO HUMANE SOCIETY | $3,000 |
| MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY | $3,000 |
| ANIMAL'S BEST FRIEND FUND INC | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
56 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- GHGENEROUS HANDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +93%
- KLKALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC8× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +63%
- SFSOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- HHHOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGANone grant, 2017 · $5k
- FSFOREVER STRONG MEMOIRAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k
- WFWILLIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Supporting organization to kalamazoo community foundation
The mission of the kalamazoo foundation for excellence is to support the goals of the city of kalamazoo, fund aspirational investments in the city, and empower kalamazoo residents to achieve the lives they want for themselves and their…
Kalamazoo housing advocate is a nonprofit working to break the cycle of homelessness in kalamazoo county.
To provide refuge and care to homeless, stray, and unwanted cats and dogs.
The mission of kalamazoo college is to prepare its graduates to better understand, live sucessfully within, and provide enlightened leadership to a richly diverse and increasingly complex world. as a highly selective, nationally renowened…
To provide high quality community-oriented, patient-centered health services for all.
To retrieve, care for, shelter and adopt out cats and dogs in calhoun county michigan
To provide financial assistance to individuals and institutions for educational and scientific purposes in order to advance science to benefit the health and welfare of animals.
Activating inclusive programs, resources, and physical space to support our community's diverse entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Long term development, stewardship, and protection of michigan parks located in kalamazoo county.
To assure housing for socially and economically vulnerable residents of kalamazoo county.
To improve lives by sharing community resources
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kalamazoo Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mattawan Food Packs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 89 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds GENEROUS HANDS INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO LOAVES & FISHES INC ↗
- Who funds Bronson Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALING CENTERS ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS OF SW MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds MATTAWAN FOOD PACKS ↗
- Who funds MINISTRY WITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds Kalamazoo Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds SOUTH MICHIGAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ANIMALS BEST FRIEND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds FIRST DAY SHOE FUND ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF SOUTHWEST MICHIGAN INC ↗
- Who funds Hospice Care of Southwest Michigan ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF KALAMAZOO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds Girls on the Run of Greater Kalamazoo ↗
- Who funds MATTAWAN AREA PANTRY IN MATTAWAN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds PRETTY LAKE VACATION CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MATTAWAN PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS KALAMAZOO ↗
- Who funds KALAMAZOO VALLEY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAGE COMMUNITY OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRYPHON PLACE ↗
- Who funds CORPORAL CHRISTOPHER KELLY WILLIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TWELVE BASKETS ↗
- Who funds GREAT LAKES BURN CAMP INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Kalamazoo Community Foundation · Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Irving S Gilmore Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · United Way of South Central Michigan · John E Fetzer Institute Inc · Harold and Grace Upjohn Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · WK Kellogg Foundation · Molitor Family Foundation · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.